John sweeney



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J. SWEENEY.

HORSESHOE PAD.

No. 602,485. Patented Apr. 19, 1898.

m w m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SWEENEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HORSESHOE-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,485, dated April 19, 1898.

Application filed January 6, 1898.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SWEENEY, of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Horseshoe-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement upon the horseshoe-pad for which Letters Patent No. 539,098 were issued to me May 14:, 1895.

The object of the present invention is to firmly secure the rubber heel to the soleleather plate and to prevent. the pressure of the horses frog from bulging the heel off the sole.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view, partly in section, of a bar-pad embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a face View thereof with the horseshoe in place; Fig. 3, a section on line 3 3, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a face view of a frog-pad embodying my invention and showing the horseshoe in place.

The letter a represents the flexible plate, made of sole leather and carrying at one end the rubber heel b. To securely attach the heel to the plate, stitching is preferable; but owing to the great strain to which the heel is subjected the stitches are apt to tear out of the rubber. To prevent this, I back the heel b with a single or duplex lining of canvas or other textile material 0, which is vulcanized into the rubber and is interposed between the heel and the plate a when the parts are connected, Fig. 3. Thus the stitches that attach the heel to the plate a will pass'thro ugh the backing c, and as such backing is intimately connected to the heel a tearing out cannot take place.

The heel b is molded with a thin circum- Serial No. 665,733- (No model.)

ferential flange b, which surrounds the heel completely and through which the outer or circumferential line of stitches d is formed. An inner line of stitches cl attaches the center or body of the heel to the plate and prevents the latter from being bulged by the pressure of the frog.

In Figs. 1 to 3 I have shown a bar-pad, while in Fig. 4 I have shown a frog-pad, the former being transformed into the latter by cutting oifthe wings b 'of heel 6, without, however, cutting off the flange b, surrounding the wings. Thus while in the bar-pad the ends of the horseshoe A abut against the wings b in the frog-pad they extend farther around the heel and rest upon the flange.

It will be seen that in my improved horseshoe-pad the heel is attached to the plate a at its circumference as well as at its center and in such a manner that the stitches cannot tear out through the rubber, so that a very reliable and durable pad is obtained.

. What I claim is 1. A horseshoe-pad composed of a leather plate, a rubber heel, a canvas backing vulcanized into the heel, and stitches that pass through the canvas backing and connect the heel to the plate, substantially as specified.

2. A horseshoe-pad composed of a leather plate, a circumferentially-flanged rubber heel, a canvas backing vulcanized into the heel, an outer line of stitches that connects the heelflange to the plate, and an inner line of stitches that connects the heel-body to such plate, substantially as specified. JOHN SWEENEY. Witnesses: F.'v. BRIESEN,

WILLIAM SoHULz. 

